Chris Dodd: “The American people have been through too much. Unemployment is still too high.”

Maybe we ought to be spending a little more time looking at the relationships at that level.

But, whether such a temptation is motivated by a noble desire to speed up the legislative process or by pure political expedience, I believe such changes would be unwise. To my fellow Senators who have never served a day in the minority, I…

It's far more complicated than a common language.

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.